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I am using R-studio 3.3.3 on a 64 bit windows 10 Acer laptop. I am new to programming in R and I just discovered that my cursor sometimes changes from a vertical line to an underscore in R-studio. Could someone help tell me why?
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A corrupted cursor turns into a line or bar and doesn't really look much like a cursor at all (a little like the one shown in the snapshot directly below). Mouse cursors tend to get corrupted for users utilizing dual monitors with AMD graphics card laptops or desktops.
A way to recover is put the mouse pointer within the window and click somewhere (so that tit gets the keyboard focus), then press one at time all the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys twice.
Press Windows Key +I and go to Ease of access and select Mouse option from the left Pane and try to set default settings for mouse and see if it helps. Hope this information was helpful.
Control Panel / Keyboard / Keyboard Properties, and set the Cursor blink rate to None. Right click the RStudio app, and Run as administrator. Uncheck Blinking cursor per usual, and the blinking should stop.
Press the Insert button on your keyboard.
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This is a very common operation in different software and platforms. The underscore means that you are in Overwrite mode, meaning that anything you type will overwrite the text at the cursor position.
The "normal" cursor indicates that you are in insert mode and all text you type will force the rest of the line to move further.
Switching between these modes happens by pressing the Insert key on your keyboard (usually there are two of them, one somewhere above of the arrow keys and another on the Num Pad).
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